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  • U. of I. medical school gave 2003 candidate unfair advantage (Chicago Way)

    06/21/2009 3:14:41 PM PDT · by STARWISE · 11 replies · 857+ views
    Chicago Tribune ^ | 6-21-09 | Jodi S. Cohen, Stacy St. Clair
    Documents show that unqualified student would have been allowed to transfer ### University of Illinois College of Medicine officials acknowledged Friday that an unqualified applicant pushed by Trustee Lawrence Eppley received an unfair advantage. An initial review of nearly 500 pages of documents released late Friday found no other examples of clout affecting medical school admissions decisions. *snip* Some of the records, however, were so heavily redacted that it was impossible to interpret them. But in the 2003 Eppley case, the student seeking to transfer to the Chicago-based medical school had "very poor grades" in the beginning of his college...